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Shock at the Magdeburg Christmas market: five dead in attack!
On December 23, 2024, Taleb A. carried out a devastating attack on the Magdeburg Christmas market out of hatred, with fatal consequences.
Shock at the Magdeburg Christmas market: five dead in attack!
In a terrible attack on the Christmas market in Magdeburg, the suspected perpetrator Taleb A. revealed himself to be a man with desperate motives. According to information from the mirror The investigators found a will in his rented BMW in which the 29-year-old stated that his entire assets should go to the German Red Cross, which indicates his intentions.
Taleb A. rented the BMW on December 11th and gave a video interview for an Islamophobic blog from a Magdeburg hotel the next day. In this interview he expressed crude conspiracy theories and alternated between sympathies for Elon Musk and hostile suspicions against the German police. On December 15, he also announced in a message on the X platform that he would die this year, which he had already repeated in previous communicative statements.
The devastating attack
The frightening scenario detonated on Friday evening: Taleb A. drove his BMW into the crowd at the Christmas market and raced several hundred meters across the busy square. The attack left five people dead, including a nine-year-old boy, and about 200 others injured. A. was arrested next to the vehicle shortly after the incident. The tragic circumstances of the crime immediately attracted the attention of the authorities, which also led to the Braunschweig CDU politician Sven-Markus Knurr, for example, leaving his party due to his controversial statements about the crime T Online reported.
What is particularly frightening is the accusation made by the Central Council of Ex-Muslims against Taleb A., who is seen there as someone who has been perceived as a threat for years. Mina Ahadi, the founder of the association, said that A. terrorized her and her organization and argued that he was ultimately a psychopath who adheres to extreme conspiracy ideologies. Ahadi also emphasizes that his hatred is not only directed against Muslims, but also against all those who do not share his extremist views.